44 min
Fabiola Ferrero on how she became a photojournalist in Venezuela VISUAL MINDS
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- Visual Arts
Fabiola Ferrero is a journalist and photographer born in Caracas in 1991. Her personal work is the result of how her childhood memories contrast with nowadays Venezuela, her home country. Looking to portray her country's crisis beyond the news, emotion is a key element in her storytelling. She wants to complement the question "What is happening?" with "How is this affecting our souls"?
Using her background in writing and investigative journalism, she develops long term visual projects about South America, and especially Venezuela's crisis, focused on collaborative ways to speak about the human condition under hostile contexts.
Interested in bringing opportunities to other newcomer photographers in the region, Fabiola founded Semillero Migrante in 2021, a mentorship program around migration that empowers Venezuelans and Colombians and promotes integration of both cultures.
She was a jury member for the World Press Photo 2022 contest South American region and Magnum Foundation Fellow for the Social Justice Program in 2018.
She’s a frequent contributor of several international media outlets, such as Le Monde, Bloomberg and New York Times.
Bio: fabiolaferrero.com
Portrait credit: Stefano Pozzebon
Fabiola Ferrero is a journalist and photographer born in Caracas in 1991. Her personal work is the result of how her childhood memories contrast with nowadays Venezuela, her home country. Looking to portray her country's crisis beyond the news, emotion is a key element in her storytelling. She wants to complement the question "What is happening?" with "How is this affecting our souls"?
Using her background in writing and investigative journalism, she develops long term visual projects about South America, and especially Venezuela's crisis, focused on collaborative ways to speak about the human condition under hostile contexts.
Interested in bringing opportunities to other newcomer photographers in the region, Fabiola founded Semillero Migrante in 2021, a mentorship program around migration that empowers Venezuelans and Colombians and promotes integration of both cultures.
She was a jury member for the World Press Photo 2022 contest South American region and Magnum Foundation Fellow for the Social Justice Program in 2018.
She’s a frequent contributor of several international media outlets, such as Le Monde, Bloomberg and New York Times.
Bio: fabiolaferrero.com
Portrait credit: Stefano Pozzebon
44 min